Eugenio Dittborn - 75 Years of Collecting - Vancouver Art Gallery

Eugenio Dittborn
The III History of the Human Face (Sydney Camino), 1989
75 Years of Collecting
Vancouver Art Gallery
garde in Latin America which began in the mid 1960’s. His work often takes
uppolitical themesand can be seen as developing upon the imperative set forth
by Brazilian artist,HelioOiticica who wrote of the "necessity of complete participation
by the poet, theartist the intellectual in general, in the events and problems
of theworld refusing to restrict oneself to aesthetic problems.”
Dittborn has produced an extended series on the History of he Human Face and
The III History of the Human Face (The Sydney Camino) is a very good example.
This work has been exhibited at the 4th Havana Bienal in Cuba as well as in
Sydney, Australia. It is often not realized how Latin American artists embrace
strategies that we think of as our own. In his case a conceptually based phototext
practice. I feel that the addition of this work to the collection would join
with works by Ian Wallace, Mary Kelly, Christian Botanski, Angela
Graverholz, Thomas Ruff, Arnaud Maggs and others, each of which address the
questions of history and identity, many of which use portraits. His work adds
breadth to our ability to represent this important area of focus for artists
throughout the past two decades.
Recommend purchase.
Gary Dufour
Senior Curator
Oct.1992
Transcription
Miscellaneous History
1992
[transcription]
Transcription of texts written on Eugenio Dittborn's III History of the
Human Face Envelopes
Envelope No: 67 Right
UNA PINTURA AEROPOSTAL DE DITTBOAN
AN AIRMAIL PAINTING BY DITTBORN
DESTINATARIO/ DESTINATION FRANQUEO/POSTAGE
Gary Dufour, Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street, Vancouver
British Columbia V6Z 2H7, Canada
ITINERARIO I ITINERARY
1. E, Dittborn
Stgo., Chile, May 89.
2. Denise Robinson
Sydney Australia, June 89.
3. III Bienal de la Habana,
14 / 19